Farley, Reynolds and Walter R. Allen. The Color Line and the Quality of Life in America. NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 1987. [Analysis of 1980 census with chapters on contemporary race relations, employment, education, family, residential patterns and segregation, and black population growth from colonial era to present.] (E185.8.F36)]

Frazier, E. Franklin. The Negro in the United States. (1957) A major sociological work.

Drake, St. Clair and Horace Cayton. Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1945. Lehmann: the best comprehensive description of black life in an American city–ever!

Farley, Reynolds. “The Urbanization of Negroes in the United States.” Journal of Social History 1 (Spring 1968): 241-58.